Bioinformatics Engineer
About Pilgrim:
Pilgrim is building America’s biology prime - engineering, manufacturing, and deploying advanced biotechnology for defense and national security. Our primary platform, ARGUS, is a fully autonomous system for detecting biological threats in near real time, from naturally occurring pathogens to engineered agents.
We engineer hardware for biology, turning breakthrough science into fielded capabilities. Based in Redwood City, our team brings together mechanical and electrical engineering, chemistry, and biology under one roof to deliver critical technologies to the people who need them.
About the Role:
As a Bioinformatics Engineer at Pilgrim, you’ll develop methods and software to characterize sequencing data from ARGUS. You’ll build metagenomic analysis pipelines that process reads as they arrive and run efficiently at the edge. You’ll validate detection accuracy so operators can trust what ARGUS reports.
Responsibilities:
Develop and evaluate methods for agnostic detection and identification of organisms in metagenomic data, including mixed samples and low-abundance signals.
Build sequencing pipelines covering basecalling, read quality control, classification, and reporting of detection evidence and
